Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1956On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd October 1956What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd October 1956Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 4th October 1956Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 5th October 1956Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 6th October 1956What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th October 1956Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 8th October 1956What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th October 1956What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 10th October 1956In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 11th October 1956In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th October 1956By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th October 1956Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 14th October 1956What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 15th October 1956Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 16th October 1956Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th October 1956What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th October 1956Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 19th October 1956What was the Privy Council?
- 20th October 1956What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 21st October 1956Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd October 1956Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 23rd October 1956What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th October 1956What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 25th October 1956In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 26th October 1956Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th October 1956Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th October 1956What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 29th October 1956What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 30th October 1956What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 31st October 1956Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?